L-m-montgomery Quote by L.M. Montgomery

“Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.”

— Gwen Bristow

“The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us”

— Jude Morgan

“We think we’re so clever. And yet we’re always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.”

— Julie Anne Long

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

“We humans have been brilliantly clever... almost as clever as we think we are, though not, perhaps, as wise.”

— Andrew Marr

“The cleverest is the one who thinks that he too can well be wrong in any matter whatsoever!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I have considered myself cleverer than any of the people surrounding me, and sometimes, would you belive it, have been positively ashamed of it.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Maybe the clever people are not the ones who think they’re clever. Maybe the clever people are the ones who accept that they know…

— Rachel Joyce

“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to…

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

“You've become a clever man.”

— Richard Russo

“One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche